(04-10-2014 04:46 AM)Mathilda Wrote: It's looking to me like the only plausible alternative to the hypothesis that he is an attention seeking troll is that he literally is mentally retarded.

I'd like to point out however that he can be both, in fact given the poor display of skill and the transparency of his attention whore I'd say it's likely. He is so bad at being an attention whore it can only be explained by an extreme case of the stupids.

(03-10-2014 10:50 PM)Metazoa Zeke Wrote: Yet you are a christian, might as well say being a republican is bullshit while being and supporting the republican party.

No, he/she/it is just an Attention Whore, who was ridiculing these very same arguments until he/she/it learned they could get a lot more attention by adopting these views rather than bashing them.

I guess he/she/it just couldn't hang with the other leading commentators and provocateurs, or at least couldn't do enough to distinguish themselves from the pack to garner enough attention; and instead went to the dark side and has been wallowing in all of the easy to get negative attention by appearing to be a retarded theist (instead of the contrarian attention whore they are). He/she/it doesn't actually buy into any of this shit, but giving it lip-service gets him/her/it the attention it desires and otherwise would have to work much harder for.

"Belief is so often the death of reason" - Qyburn, Game of Thrones

"The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them." -Hans Conzelmann (1915-1989)

The single most reliable method known to be the best path to the truth is, demonstrable evidence and valid and sound logic. But you don't use these.

You base your beliefs on flawed physiological arguments, and you ignore actual evidence.

Amen! Preach it, Brother!

To emphasize the point, one of the most-respected, most influential logicians and arguers of all time, Aristotle, used logic to prove that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. It took about 2000 years for someone to stop believing the logic and start actually checking. For this, and other offenses of not-believing-what-he-was-told, the inquirer was himself subject to an Inquisition.

Moral of the lesson: Logic can be useful, but it is also quite fallible. It does not trump evidence.